NEW! Less Dust Blend WITHOUT Pine
As our experienced deepened over the years, our desires around the perfect inorganic medium has changed slightly. Starting Spring 2025 we are pleased to announce that we have made some slight changes to our inorganic medium. All of the components are the same as our old mix, but they are different in a few key ways that we feel are more tailored to rare succulents.
What has changed? Glad you asked! Our previous medium was compromised of three components-- monto clay, calcined clay and 1/4" pine fines. Not everyone loves pine-- we get that! This formula has our classic base, monto clay and calcined clay, without the pine.
In our 'Less Dust' formula all of our calcined clay comes from the same region and is washed and screened to have less dust. In our classic formula some of the calcined clay comes from a different region and produces a little more dust.
Why forgo the pine? In hotter regions pine is not always preferred and some folks prefer to fertilize with liquid fertilizer rather than biological components. If you would like an excellent liquid fertilizer click here and we suggest you use that around your succulents (not directly on your plants) every two months.
The clay products are the same, they are still baked at high temperatures to ward off any bacteria, however they are a smaller grain-- which gives you even more surface area of the crucial moisture wicking components.
Our retail customers have been loving this new blend and we're so happy to be offering it online as well.
Succulent Medium #4 contains: 50% Calcined clay, 50% Monto Clay. This soil is bagged in-house weekly and has not been sitting on a shelf, it is fresh and dry.
We are also happy to announce that we'll have four different versions of inorganic medium to choose from, based on your specific and regional needs. And we've also worked very hard to reduce both retail and our shipping charges. Our prices have never been better for small bags of inorganic soil! Prices are drastically lower now that we are making our blend in-house and you can add up to a gallon of soil with no additional shipping charge to an outgoing order!
See our new 2025 Shipping Rates here:
-2.5 quarts (first bag ships free if you have an existing order. Soil-only shipping is $14)
-1 gallon (first bag ships free if you have an existing order. Soil-only shipping is $14)
-4 gallons ($24 flat rate, even if you have an existing order. This is due to weight and your soil may ship separately from you succulents).
*please note our cloth bags hold more than a gallon. In the past we've filled these bags to capacity, which created problems with soil spilling out in the box. We will not overfill our bags moving forward, they will contain exactly one gallon each and should ship cleaner. (One gallon is still a full bag, but it is not so full that it is spilling out of the drawstring top).
